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© NRAO/S. Dagnello Artists conception of a violent flare erupting from the star Proxima Centauri. Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the suns nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, was led by CU Boulder and could help to shape the hunt for life beyond Earths solar system. CU Boulder astrophysicist Meredith MacGregor explained that Proxima Centauri is a small but mighty star. It sits just four light-years or more than 20 trillio...

Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, DC– A team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Alycia Weinberger and former-Carnegie postdoc Meredith MacGregor, now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, spotted an extreme outburst, or flare, from the Sun’s nearest neighbor–the star Proxima Centauri. Their work, which could help guide the search for life beyond our Solar System, is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Proxima Centauri is a “red dwarf” ...

Record-breaking flare erupts from neighboring star CNN 1 hr ago By Ashley Strickland, CNN © From NRAO/S. Dagnello This is an artists illustration of the violent stellar flare from Proxima Centauri. A giant flare that is 100 times more powerful than any flare our sun has ever released has erupted from a nearby star, a new study says. Proxima Centauri is our suns nearest stellar neighbor at 4 light-years, or 25 trillion miles, away. Its a small, dim red dwarf star with just a...

An artist’s impression of a titanic flare erupting from Proxima Centauri in 2019. The explosive outburst was witnessed by nine observatories across the electromagnetic spectrum. Image: NRAO/S. Dagnello Astronomers monitoring Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to Earth’s solar system, have spotted the most powerful flare ever seen erupting from the red dwarf, a titanic outburst lasting just seven seconds that generated 100 times more power than any known flare from the Sun. “Stars like Pro...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Artists conception of the violent stellar flare from Proxima Centauri discovered by scientists in 2019 using nine telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum, including the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Powerful... view more  Credit: NRAO/S. Dagnello Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the suns nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri. The research, which appears today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, was led by...

University of Colorado Boulder Artist’s conception of a violent flare erupting from the star Proxima Centauri. (Credit: NRAO/S. Dagnello) Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the sun’s nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri. The research, which appears today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, was led by CU Boulder and could help to shape the hunt for life beyond Earth’s solar system. CU Boulder astrophysicist Meredith MacGregor explained that Proxima Centau...

Indie Game Studio RifRaf Games Launches New Space Odyssey Share Article RifRaf Games is an independent game development studio led by longtime industry veterans and based in Brooklyn, NY. They have recently launched "Tales from the Crossing", the first in a series of episodic mobile games. We’re focused on cultivating a universe of interconnected games where the story comes first and where player choice truly affects the experience. - Michael Rifkin BROOKLYN, N...

New research: We won’t travel faster than light anytime soon, but we might be able to distort the flow of time Who needs faster-than-light travel if you can control time? An independent news and commentary website produced by academics and journalists. An independent news and commentary website produced by academics and journalists. In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technol...

New warp drive research dashes faster-than-light travel dreams But reveals stranger possibilities. In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe’s ultimate speed limit by bending the fabric of reality. It was an intriguing idea – even NASA has been researching it at the Eagleworks laboratory – but Alcubierre’s proposal contained problems that seemed insurmounta...

Across the universe? The story of warp drives starts with Einstein’s crowning achievement: general relativity. The equations of general relativity capture the way in which spacetime, the very fabric of reality, bends in response to the presence of matter and energy which, in turn, explains how matter and energy move. General relativity places two constraints on interstellar travel. First, nothing can be accelerated past the speed of light (around 300,000 km per second). Even travelling at...